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Currently four ministers have resigned over May’s Brexit plans, including Brexit secretary Dominic Raab and work and pensions secretary Esther McVey. Michael Gove has been offered the role of Brexit secretary but has said he will only take the job if he can renegotiated the Prime Minister’s Brexit deal.

The i Paper reported some of the MPs that wrote letters of no confidence to the chair of the Tory 1922 committee, Sir Graham Brady, and the number amounted to 14 including Jacob Rees-Mogg and Simon Clarke.

It has also been revealed by The Telegraph that the conservatives’ deal with the DUP, which May relies on for her majority, will end unless a new party leader is found.

In a press conference on Thursday when May was asked if she would fight against a no confidence vote, she replied: “Am I going to see this through? Yes.”

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